Of those above, I can vouch for Estelle’s favorites stream. She’s always got cool stuff in there that I’ve been checking out lately. And although Zoran is not as high-profile as the other’s in that list, he’s got some cool stuff in his favorites stream probably to help his research for CSS Weekly.

So that’s just an example list. I’m sure others could come up with a similar bunch of names whose Twitter favorites might be worth a peek.

How Do You Follow Favorites?

Here’s a solution that, unfortunately, will only work until March 2013.

Apparently, you can subscribe to a Twitter user’s favorites via RSS using the following URL syntax:

Kind of a bummer, especially since there doesn’t seem to be an updated method for subscribing to someone’s favorites via RSS. If anyone knows of a simple way to do this, please share.

Is there an app I don’t know about that does this? Or maybe this post can serve as a motivator for someone to build such a tool. Here’s the relevant part of Twitter’s API that you’d need to look into, if you’re interested in this.

Personally, I use RSS only, since Twitter only points to useful content on blogs, why not subscribe to those blogs directly? Also, using a news reader I can much more easily track what I’ve read and what not.

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